Vocational education is an important form of education at different levels in the country and an important engine for the development of the real economy. Premier Li Keqiang once pointed out that "Made in China" has a worldwide reputation but its products and services are not yet "refined," not "fine." Vocational education not only needs to cultivate vocational skills but also cultivate professionalism.
In the key period of industrial transformation and upgrading and "Made in China" towards "China's intelligence-making", it is also reasonable to carry forward the spirit of "big country craftsmen" and upgrade the professional accomplishments of the industrial army.
AI + education into a "tuyere"
After years of evolution, the development of artificial intelligence has entered a new phase. In order to seize major strategic opportunities for the development of artificial intelligence and build the first mover advantage of the development of artificial intelligence in our country, the State Department issued the "New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" on July 20. Education is considered one of the industries that will be closely integrated with artificial intelligence.
AI + education is considered as the hope of future development.
More and more educational enterprises have announced plans to promote artificial intelligence, AI + education has become the new outlet, and triggered a fierce competition. There is a voice that the combination of education and artificial intelligence may, to a certain degree, replace the teacher with a machine. For example, the text of the amendment, simply answering questions, job changes will be automated. Teacher services to students, including communication, payment of these acts can be fully automated, 60% of the work can be replaced.
Many investors believe that the education industry will change from a service industry to an information industry under the action of artificial intelligence.
Taking advantage of the AI + education east wind, a lot of start-up companies associated with access to capital markets. At the beginning of this year, "Xue Ba Jun" announced the completion of 100 million US dollars of C round of financing, mid-year, AI + education company "said fluent" announced the completion of nearly one hundred million dollars of C round of financing. In addition, some start-up companies with AI elements, such as FirstSchool Education, Touch Future, and Xiao Yang Education, have also announced the completion of a new round of financing in the coming year.
The ideological and political work in colleges and universities is repeatedly emphasized
In 2017, it was designated as "Teaching Quality Year of Ideological and Political Theory Course in Colleges and Universities" by the Ministry of Education. This year, the ideological and political work in colleges and universities was referred to highly valued.
In the last month of 2017, the Ministry of Education promulgated the Outline for the Implementation of the Quality Improvement Project of Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Outline"). The "Implementation Outline" is considered as the top-level design and detailed plan for improving the quality of ideological and political work in colleges and universities The curriculum, research, practice, culture, "top ten educate people" system. Through classroom teaching reform, optimization of scientific research links and procedures, and improvement of scientific research evaluation standards, the ideological and political work in colleges and universities should be better adapted and meet the demands of students' growth.
Ideological and political work relates to the fundamental question of what kind of people should be trained by colleges and universities, how to train people and how to train people.
Relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said in public that the next step will be to vigorously promote the reform of classroom teaching aimed at the ideological and political education of the course, optimize curriculum, revising professional teaching materials, combing the elements of ideological and political education and the elements The function of ideological and political education. The ideological and political education into all aspects of classroom teaching, ideological and political education and knowledge system to achieve seamless education.
In order to ensure the implementation of the "Implementation Outline," the Ministry of Education will set up a working platform to establish a number of innovation and development centers for ideological and political work in colleges and universities, a network of ideological and political work centers in provincial universities and a training and training center for ideological and political work teams in colleges and universities.
Private education usher in the development of opportunities
In September, the "People's Republic of China Private Education Promotion Law" (hereinafter referred to as "Civil Procedure Law") amendment came into effect. The amended "Civil Promotion Law" classified non-profit schools according to "non-profit" and "for profit" Management, expand the space for private education development, and further clarify the development of private education in the form of far-reaching, of great significance.
This is the first time that our country has clearly defined the legal status of teachers in private schools and private schools, brought them into the management of teachers, and categorized management of "for-profit" and "non-profit" educational institutions in education.
Under the "Civilian Probation Law", private schools in compulsory education can only choose to become "non-profit" private schools. Private-run kindergartens, high schools and colleges and universities may choose to become "non-profit" private schools or "for-profit" private-owned schools SCHOOL. Private schools of two types will enjoy different preferential policies for supporting finance, taxation and land.
It is generally agreed that classification management will break through the bottleneck that has restricted the development of private education in our country for a long time.